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Enterprise Park to Crooked Lake 115 kV Transmission Line March 2012 <br />Environmental Assessment <br />Table 5.5: International Guidelines and Standards for EMF <br />Regulating Body <br />Maximum <br />Electric <br />Field <br />(kV/m) <br />Maximum <br />Magnetic <br />Field (mG) <br />Notes <br />American Conference of 25 <br />Governmental and Industrial <br />Hygienists (ACGIH) <br />International Commission on 4.2 <br />Non -Ionizing Radiation <br />Protection (ICNIRP) <br />Non -Ionizing Radiation <br />Committee of the American <br />Industrial Hygiene <br />Association <br />Institute of Electrical and 5 <br />Electronics Engineers (IEEE) <br />Standard C95.6 <br />UK, National Radiological 12 <br />Protection Board (NRPB) <br />Australian Radiation <br />Protection and Nuclear Safety <br />Agency (ARPANSA) <br />10,000 <br />Occupational standard for <br />general worker <br />833 General public continuous <br />exposure <br />4,170 <br />9.040 <br />General public continuous <br />exposure <br />833 General public continuous <br />exposure <br />3,000 <br />Source: EPRI, 2003; Union of the Electric Industry — E JROELECTRIC, 2003. <br />Health Studies <br />A common concern related to EMFs is the potential for human exposure to EMFs to <br />result in adverse health effects. Studies on whether or not EMFs are associated with <br />adverse health effects have been conducted by numerous organizations including the <br />National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the US Environmental <br />Protection Agency (USEPA), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Minnesota <br />State Interagency Working Group (MSIWG). <br />In 1992, the US Congress authorized the Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and <br />Public Information Dissemination Program (EMF-RAPID Program) in the Energy Policy <br />Act. The Congress instructed NIEHS, National Institute of Health, and the US <br />Department of Energy (DOE) to direct and manage a program of research and analysis <br />aimed at providing scientific evidence to clarify the potential for health risks from <br />exposure to ELF-EMFs (NIEHS, 1999). The EMF-Rapid Program provided the <br />following conclusions to Congress on May 4, 1999: <br />• The scientific evidence suggesting that ELF-EMF exposures pose any health risk <br />is weak. <br />34 <br />